Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203528
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES CD-10
Kaleidoskop 47
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 389388
Singspiel
Kaleidoskop 2
for: Children's choir
Music score
Item no.: 389265
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 135490
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 461712
Text: deutsch/hebräisch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 136683
Die Heilung der Blinden
Mini-Musical für Kinder
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 134924
for: Women's choir a cappella
30 Chorpartituren
Item no.: 134781
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 403115
Wenig getragene Perlen des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs
für gem Chor (z.T. mit Instrumenten) Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 605283
Régi táncdal
Dallama: 'Ungarescha' J. Paix orgonakönyvéből (1583)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607796
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 586977
Oper in 4 Akten
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 581097
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 472331
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 472132
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476082
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Set of parts
Item no.: 470362
Ausgabe enthält auch die optionale Orgelstimme
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 468444
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469352
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 462530
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 554413
Comedian Harmonists a cappella für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 482234
Oratorium Wtq 240
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 491499
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 490703
für gemischten CHor (SATB) Orchester und Orgel
oder Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 460075
Neue Kärntnerlieder des St. Veiter Kreises für gemischten Gesang, Männerchor und Frauenchor.
for: Mixed choir [women's choir/male choir] (4 voices)
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 433277
Drei Chorlieder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 432480
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 461424
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 443111
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten oder Hörner und Pauken ad lib., 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus den Vesperae solennes de Dominica op. 9
kritisch revidierte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 434075
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 602316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 559083
mit Klavier
Wenn ich durch Busch und Zweig
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 558609
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 578445
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 605984
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 605981
(Hymne an die Zukunft)
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604486
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1669880
Ritual Music and Motets
Early English Church Music 33
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 603908
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich~Dtoe 94/95
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103486
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 492432
Steinzeitlieder und Höhlensongs
8 Höhlensongs mit Gitarrenakkorden
Kinderliedersammlung
for: Children's choir (1–3 voices), guitar [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 368074
Archivio Bossi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 137139
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 133167
Kantate zum Osterfest für Kinderchor, Querflöte und Orgel (Gemeinde ad lib.)
for: Children's choir, flute, organ; the parish ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 430810
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 141817
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 143458
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 190193
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